It's basically Friends with a PhD and an unfortunate lack of social skills – a flatshare that focuses on two physics geniuses at Caltech, Leonard and Sheldon, and their marginally-less-genius friends Howard and Rajesh.

I needed a place in a hurry, and I fell in love with the house - a rickety flatshare in Marylebone with wonky wooden floors and review copies of every book published in Britain in the past four years stacked on every surface.